Ummm.. not to nit-pick (well, yes, actually), wasn’t it established earlier that you can only Poit to somewhere you’ve been before? I presumed M was visiting some Mexican beach she’d visited before. But she hasn’t been to Ireland, so she needs someone to take her there first — perhaps one of the GGs?

I doubt Monica has Mexican friends. She was raised in the US, AFAIK. I don’t think she had seen her cousins in a while and I think I remember that she knew Amanda since Kindergarten. She and Yummie Tea were the only two Latinos in her grade school.

Amanda or Kevin might get an assignment there, or Amanda and Monica might decide to take a vacation, or Tepoz might have been there to give them Irish whiskey, or something might come up so they decide not to go or who knows what. Actually, Jin probably has so much money, she wouldn’t mind buying airplane tickets for them, if necessary. As someone pointed out below, Monica might have even been there.

Well, she did poit A out into the middle of Lake Calhoun; it’s not likely she actually had been out directly in the middle of Lake Calhoun. (Yes, this is possible; you can live next to a large body of water and never actually go out on a boat or other conveyance on said body of water.)

ahh but she implied “lovely” tan as in going to the beach for one, snow tans tend to be a much harsher color because the conditions are different, not to mention Amanda knows how much M hates the cold. Plus Monica probably still smells like the ocean, since I know i always do for a day or too after going.

Apparently, there are different definitions. Kramegame was probably using Ocean Breeze scented bodywash or deodorant or something. It’s funny that many people associate Ocean smells with cleanliness, but you obviously don’t.

I don’t know how many beaches you have been to, but the water can vary a lot. One time I drove to beach near Lake Charles, LA and thought, “Ewww!” I can only vaguely remember a beach near Corpus Christi, TX, but I don’t remember it being that bad. I suspect that the “fishy” smell might be from decaying organic stuff.

More on topic, Monica may have never gone in the water. She seems like the type that would be less likely to do that and I suspect that she wasn’t there that long.

I hope Lucky Charms never had “green outfit” marshmallow bits. I’m beginning to wonder what they serve you in the monastery. BTW, I know I bumped the numbers up by one, but that’s the way kinglash started it.

I wonder if you guys remember that she’s part Irish. Her parents might have taken her to Ireland in her early years to learn her heritage, just like they did when they took here to Mexico. Ya know, just saying. >.>

Well, Brandi would give us the African connection, and Jin seems of Asian extraction … although of course, they both may derive from now extinct bloodlines that don’t actually fit those modern pigeonholes.

I wonder…does anyone here know when it’s appropriate to use the term “Oriental” instead of “Asian”? I once had a teacher who said that “Oriental is for rugs and spices…nothing else,” but I don’t know how true that is considering how much I hear people use it otherwise.

In the movie Jumper, all that was needed to go somewhere was a photograph of the destination. The transport cloth Bud destroyed would be a variation on that – an image one could home in on, regardless of where the image might be.

Monica seems to have poited Amanda into the lake using nothing more than a photo pinned on the cork board as a guide.

“Monica seems to have poited Amanda into the lake using nothing more than a photo pinned on the cork board as a guide.”

I don’t think so. She’s been to the lake and is familiar with it. It’s not that big. So essentially she’s already been where she poited Amanda. The photo was just something that gave her the idea. (It would be a pretty random idea, otherwise.)

Paul seemed to endorse jwhouk’s interpretation:

When Monica made the offer to Amanda, the reaction wasn’t what she expected. She was hurt, fearful, and then she saw her postcard of Lake Calhoun on her bulletin board. And that’s when her plan came together – “I’ll dunk Amanda for just a few seconds, and THEN we’ll talk about who’s crazy.”

(That’s from a little above this comment.) That’s the way I read it, too.

I’ll also disagree that the portal cloth was the same sort of thing. A photograph of a destination represents a specific, static place, but is at the departure point. The design on the cloth is the destination, but it’s movable, so it doesn’t have a connection to a static place. To me, it’s much more like a functional device that happens to be somewhere than a location or a representation of a place.

I completely missed that comment; thanks for pointing it out. Carefully making a note.

As for the portal cloth, I did mean just what you said, but obviously didn’t say it clearly – an image to home on, regardless of where it might be or whether or not it was in motion.

Keep in mind Fairportfan‘s comment about the person initiating a poit having a pattern in mind, and his example of how Monica retrieved Topez, even though she did not know his location. She knew him, his pattern.

Also, two possible exceptions: Jin poit-ing things to a place where even she didn’t know where they had gone, and just now, Monica dropping tons of snow on the Spoiled Princess. Is it possible to poitmail something to a destination of random chance, or is there some backstory to these events we don’t know yet?

I missed Fairportfan’s comment, but it doesn’t seem to me that the visual aspect would be all that important in this comic. Speaking generally, Paul seems to be thinking about emotions a lot. It seems to me that poiting would require a deeper connection with what it being poited and where it is going than what you would get with only one of the six senses.

Come to think of it, here is an example. I don’t think Monica had actually seen the gunmen. She knew they existed and was thinking about them, so that’s why she poited to them. Of course, visualizing something helps us remember everything about the thing, so it’s all connected.

That seems to be more in line with how poiting works when you’re looking for someone or trying to poit a person/object to you. Actually taking yourself to a physical location without a person you know already there seems to require knowledge of the place (though I imagine going somewhere new just by honing in on someone you know would be more than a little risky).

The portal cloth wasn’t related to the poiting, too. Maybe I’m confusing what you’re saying, but the cloth is a doorway to the sister cloth and not a tool to aid poiting (which is why Monica used it/them to travel to the second cloth’s location and then poited home).

Then again, I’m not entirely sure how it all works when we’ve seen Bud come through the portal tattoo without any suggestion that she had the other cloth with her to connect them… *is confused now*

People have been thinking that maybe Jin could take Monica to Ireland, she might not be welcome there. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but apparently she ran into Saint Patrick when she was in her animal form and must have really ticked him off.